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company had approximately 60.4 million wireless subscribers. It also had approximately 9.2 million fixed line subscribers, 4.7 million broadband subscribers, and 9.8 million Pay TV subscribers. Services and Products Wireless Voice Services and Products Claro Brasil, S.A. (Claro Brasil) offers wireless voice services under various rate plans to meet the needs of different user segments. The rate plans are either ‘postpaid’, where the customer is billed monthly for the previous month, or ‘prepaid’, where the customer pays in advance for a specified volume of use over a specified period. Fixed Line Voice Services and Products Embratel is the Brazil’s domestic long-distance service provider, offering inter-regional, intra-regional, and intra-sectorial long-distance services to corporate, residential, and cellular customers throughout Brazil. Embratel also provides international long-distance services. In addition, Embratel is the local service provider with presence in various Brazilian states, marketing to residential customers its wireless local services under the Claro Fixo brand and in connection with Net Serviços, its fixed-line services under the NET Fone brand. Embratel also offers services to large- and medium-sized business customers under the VipLine and Rede Vip brands. NET Fone had approximately 3.8 million subscribers as of December 31, 2011 and is available in approximately 100 cities. Broadband and Data Services Embratel provides data communication services, serving a client base that includes a majority of Brazil’s 500 corporations. Embratel’s data transmission services include the renting of high-speed data lines to businesses and to other telecommunications providers, satellite data transmission, Internet services, packet-switched data transmission, frame relay, and message-handling systems. Embratel offers a new broadband Internet service over its hybrid fiber coaxial network. Net Serviços provides broadband Internet services to residential customers, marketing its services under the Net Virtua brand in Brazil. This product is available at various download speeds. Net Virtua had approximately 4.3 million subscribers as of December 31, 2011. Pay TV Net Serviços provides cable Pay TV services to residential customers in Brazil. As of December 31, 2011, Net Serviços had approximately 7.5 million cable Pay TV subscribers and offered digital cable in 61 locations, including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Net Serviços offers Pay TV and Pay Per View programming under the ‘NET’ brand, digital Pay TV under the ‘NET Digital’ brand, and high definition (HD) Pay TV under the ‘NET Digital HD MAX’ brand, as well as digital video recorder, interactive, and video on demand services. Net Serviços is also the Pay TV operator in Brazil to broadcast content in HD 3D. In addition to offering traditional cable Pay TV services, Net Serviços offers multichannel multipoint distribution service (MMDS) Pay TV services in Recife, Porto Alegre, and Curitiba. As of December 31, 2011, Net Serviços had 32,184 MMDS Pay TV subscribers. Net Serviços also offers bundled packages of services, including triple play services, which combine Pay TV, broadband Internet, and fixed line telephone services with a cable television network that passes 14.1 million homes. In addition, Net Serviços offers ‘Multi Combo’ service package, which offers wireless telephone, fixed telephone, and Pay TV services, in conjunction with Claro Brasil and Embratel. Embratel also offers Pay TV services through direct-to-home (DTH) technology. Other Services Embratel provides satellite solutions, including space segment provision, broadband, and data network services in Brazil. Embratel’s satellite fleet has also permitted it to expand the telecommunications services it offers to its customers, reaching areas not covered by terrestrial networks with services, such as television, data, Internet, distance education, telephony, and other special services projects. Embratel also provides text, telex, sound and image transmission, and maritime communications services, as well as call center services through BrasilCenter Comunicações to re